Improving Research Availability in Low-Bandwidth Areas: Eprints3v5 Bundle Export

Loading large modern web pages in areas without fast internet connections means that precious bandwidth is used for non-important data, such as colours and animations. A repository user is primarily interested in navigating effectively to and reading research, not the presentation of the research on a webpage. In OR24 there was a buzz surrounding the idea of digital repositories provisioning for internet-in-a-box applications. EPrints is very good at curating data and exporting to any kind of format. Therefore the idea is to create an export option where a user who is interested in a set of outputs can export a set of basic html pages and the pdf's of research where available. This set of HTML pages and PDF's is as small as it can be in order to be added to any computer. The user on the other end can navigate the HTML pages and find the research they are looking for and have it served locally, wherever that may be, around the globe. We plan on making this standard in the latest version of EPrints, 3v5.